Chapter 3195

And these very deliberate cases can all trigger public opinion to the greatest extent. Once they break out, all media will go into battle together, one wave of people analyzing and one wave of people refuting, various experts taking turns to talk, and victims' families accepting seven or eight interviews a day.

Generally speaking, if public opinion ferments to this extent, it is unfavorable to the local country and government. In order to maintain social stability, they should also carry out a certain degree of control.

But more coincidentally, whenever public opinion breaks out, the local area will simultaneously break out some corruption and bribery cases, or someone will release some news unfavorable to certain people, or even simply the death of an important person.

This led to the control of public opinion being very pessimistic, and later almost no one would take action.

Combining various characteristics, Schiller speculated that except for the hotel tragedy at the beginning which was indeed the influence of the Outer God, all these supernatural events might be man-made.

It's not that they are filming a movie. Those tragedies might have really happened, and they were indeed something humans couldn't do, but the root of this danger is controlled in the hands of certain people.

The supernatural and monsters are real, but some people can use these things to grab benefits for themselves.

This also conforms to the previous inference about the Joker's fundamental purpose. He wants all this to be man-made, so that after Batman saves the world, he finds that his real opponent is not a natural disaster at all, but the compatriots he is determined to save.

In fact, theoretically, the church's development trajectory is not very scientific. Relying only on these means, they shouldn't be able to reach their current status, but Schiller himself is a clergy member of the church, so he won't pursue these details.

Figuring out his true identity and having a speculation about the origin of the supernatural in this world, this house was not investigated in vain.

However, Schiller still has to find a way to find Old Silterk. Being able to have such a deduction, he must have known something, and that sailor's diary is also very wrong. Schiller needs to get more intelligence from him.

After simply turning around a few bedrooms, Schiller found traces left by wheelchair tires in one of the bedrooms. He guessed that this might be Mrs. Silterk's room.

Now only the garage is left unchecked in the whole house. If this couple has any other place to hide, it is either the garage or the basement of the garage.

But before heading to the garage, Schiller called the Beyonder out and said, "Are there any mental defense skills? That is, skills that can avoid the drop in mental health..."

"No, resisting mental attacks depends on your willpower. If you had added a little more willpower at the beginning, you would naturally be able to be immune to mild mental attacks."

Schiller's willpower value is actually not low, but judging from the current situation, it seems that it doesn't play any role.

Schiller then thought about it and said, "Then are there any physical defense measures, that is, skills like shields?"

The Beyonder thought about it and said, "There is no skill in the game that can conjure a magic shield out of thin air, but you can add a Block Mastery. In this way, the dice check value will be reduced when you block."

"Are all mastery-type skills this effect? Is there Willpower Mastery?"

"Your initial skill is to restore mental health value by a large margin. Why are you always worried about this?"

Schiller shook his head without explaining too much. He thought about it and said, "Then is there any skill that can avoid supernatural possession?"

"Isn't your Spirit Vision just that?" the Beyonder explained. "A full-level Spirit Vision can see almost all supernatural phenomena. It comes towards you, and you dodge it, don't you?"

"Can this thing be dodged?"

"Of course you can, but you have to use the correct method to dodge."

Schiller seemed to understand a little. Spirit Vision can probably see the characteristics of the supernatural. Once you see the characteristics, you can almost guess how to dodge it, and you might even be able to guess how to restrict it. This is the qualitative change of a full-level skill.

Thinking of this, Schiller felt a little relieved, and he began to think about whether he had any other shortcomings.

"Do you want to add this?" the Beyonder suggested. "It seems that only you can add this skill."

"What is this?"

"Cthulhu Mythos."

"I am literate. I mean what is this skill for."

"It's to let you recall some knowledge about the Cthulhu Mythos."

"I don't need to recall, I also know..."

"But you can't say it, because that's something outside the game, and are you sure you know all the spells in the Cthulhu Mythos?"

Schiller instinctively grasped the key and said, "So I will encounter these later?"

"In fact, this skill is not allowed to be added with ordinary skill points. You must obtain points after you encounter mythical creatures, but because the occupations of all other players do not have the conditions to recall mythical knowledge, only your occupation has a certain possibility, so you are exceptionally allowed to use ordinary skill points to add it."

Schiller thought about it and understood the Beyonder's meaning. In the setting of this world, the Cthulhu Mythos has not always existed, and it is not known to the public at all.

None of them came here to investigate because they knew something in the myth in advance, which is to say they are not investigators at all, but a group of ordinary people with ghosts in their hearts.

In such a situation, the character settings of others determined that they were unlikely to come into contact with similar knowledge. It is not in line with common sense to let an ordinary doctor or lawyer recall knowledge about Dagon as soon as they see a Deep One.

Because this thing has never appeared in the field of vision of ordinary people, and even the church has no relevant records. Where could they know it? Not to mention being able to recall it as soon as they see it.

And even if it is outside the game, it is about the same. Only Schiller, the Joker, and the main universe Batman have an understanding of this. Even Bruce has no understanding because he is not interested in such things. Among them, the Joker and the main universe Batman don't understand it deeply, at most knowing Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. The Marvel side might know Shuma-Gorath. The only one who is proficient in this aspect is Schiller.

So if no one adds this skill now, they are completely in the dark about these things. The Beyonder might also be afraid that they will be wiped out here because the information is too scarce, so he broke this rule.

"Are you sure it's not Greed holding a gun to your forehead and forcing you to agree?" Schiller asked knowingly.

"Haha, stop joking, he can't beat me." The Beyonder gave a dry laugh. Now Schiller is sure that it was indeed Greed holding a gun to his forehead that made him agree.

Since the Beyonder said so, Schiller also decided to add this skill. His two skill points can only add one level, but this skill can reach up to five levels, so Schiller asked.

"Then can encountering mythical creatures give me points?"

"Fighting with mythical creatures can obtain additional skill points," the Beyonder said. "By the way, I'll give you a piece of intelligence, someone has already obtained points."

Schiller's heart sank. He speculated that Batman might have gone to the pier, but he didn't expect that they had already started fighting.

Schiller didn't hold much hope for the result of the battle between Batman and the potentially existing mythical creatures, because this thing is very restraining to Batman. Let alone fighting them, just looking at them will drop his sanity. Batman's most precious thing is sanity.

A bit of a miscalculation, Schiller thought. He should have actually walked with Batman, so he could restore Batman's mental health value, but now they are separated, which just gives the other party a chance to break them one by one.

Schiller put away his thoughts. He entered the garage from the door inside the house, and then found that it was indeed as he expected. There was no one in the garage, but there was a door leading to the basement.

Before going down to the basement, Schiller scanned it with Spirit Vision and didn't see anything special. After he went down, he put on the night vision goggles, gripped the crowbar tightly, and walked forward with light footsteps.

After walking out of the basement, he indeed came to the underground cave. In front was a smooth tunnel, and a faint sound came from the end of the tunnel.

Schiller approached the limit of the Spirit Vision skill range. After turning on Spirit Vision, he immediately saw a woman's figure.

The woman was sitting. The outline of her internal organs was clearly visible, and what made her internal organs exposed were some dense small light spots. They circled around the internal organs, flying and circling non-stop.

The woman's body was trembling, as if she was vomiting, but Schiller saw that the woman's upper respiratory tract had been modified. To be precise, it had been removed. A kind of breathing equipment was worn on her chest to help her lungs exchange air, and a tube was inserted into her stomach, which seemed to be used to provide food.

Schiller immediately realized that this was probably the restriction measure for the monster in her body.

Recalling what Greed said before that people would vomit their internal organs, Schiller suspected that this monster might be parasitic in people's internal organs and then transmitted through the air.

The gathering method of the light spots explained the former, and the reason why they had to vomit their internal organs was to let the light spots come into contact with the air.

No wonder Greed said that if the Joker was not prepared, he would surely die. The equipment worn on the woman must have a way to get the light spots out, and if you don't know the rules, as long as you breathe, you will inhale the light spots into your body, and by then you will definitely vomit all your internal organs.

But since he had already seen it, Schiller naturally had a way to deal with it.

The other party didn't know he had night vision goggles. In this dark space, whoever could see clearly naturally occupied a huge advantage.

Schiller first used the night vision goggles to see the situation in the small cave ahead clearly. Except for this tunnel, there was also a tunnel on the left side of the woman, and it looked not small, enough to accommodate an adult to enter normally.

Beside the woman was a man. He seemed to have heard something and put his hand on the equipment on the woman's chest.

It seems this is his method of using monsters to kill people, but Schiller wouldn't give him this chance.

Schiller first took a deep breath, held his breath, closed his eyes, and relying on the memory just now, an explosive sprint, rushed to the woman's front.

He heard the man turn a button, making a click, but the next second, Schiller had already grabbed his neck, pulled him off the chair, and entered the corridor on the left at the fastest speed.

Walking forward along the corridor, he came to another cave. Schiller still felt it was not safe. He could at least hold his breath for another minute, so he simply took the man and turned around, came to a cave completely far away from the previous place, and threw the man on the ground.

And to prevent him from having any other tricks, he directly pulled the gas mask off the man's face and put it on his own face, and then opened his mouth and said, "Are you Silterk?"

"You bastard!! You..."

"Okay, I'll change the question." Schiller picked up the crowbar and smashed it directly onto the man's ankle. After a scream, he asked.

"Are you Silterk?"